skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also grew up in VA (southeast) in that time period and there were lots of LAN parties! What part of Virginia were you in?
> but much faster and with proper ligature support.

Faster, yes but ligature is the very first thing I turned off.

font-feature=-calt
font-feature=-liga
font-feature=-dlig

In other news, if anyone knows how to keybind F11 to toggle_fullscreen , please share. And no, this does not seem to work:

keybind = F11=toggle_fullscreen
This made me think - is there a simple way to sync localStorage with my Firefox profile? If not, it doesn't sound like a WebExtension too difficult to create.
Not having actually random shuffle is more important to me, but I’m only 50/50 on Spotify right now despite being a premium member for a decade.

One wrong move, and one export/import to another service and I’m gone.
Would love to listen to this but it’s German only :(

Is there an english version coming out any time soon?
The exact example IS bad opsec... however assume some example fuzzing for good opsec.

Trip to McD's with a price of exactly happy meal + tax one day, and a recurring payment for XXX website OnlyFans access the next. Adjust the values to taste/theory. Sometimes a credit card is just a credit card.
I agree. In fact I built my own music player to support this on Mac because I wasn't happy with the existing apps:

https://www.plastaq.com/minimoon
Realistically the alternative is that they remain a kind of sham non-profit. I don't like the company, their mission and leadership creep me out - but all things considered it would be a good thing for them to lose the 503c designation, no?

Their CEO and board are... extremely unreliable narrators, to put it lightly.

They just raised over $6b at a $157b valuation. The total amount of capital invested to date is astonishing. The fact is that their corporate structure is not really a hindrance - 18 billion should be enough to start "an enduring company", in the sense that it won't disappear next year.

The idea that they need to be a corporation to succeed seems like just another story to sell. It's unlikely they'll get out of this hole.
It's not clear to me that the responsibility lies solely with the companies producing fossil fuels. Surely a lot of responsibility lies with consumers of the fossil fuels creating a market for the fossil fuel.

In any case, it's a classic tragedy of the commons and we need coordinated action at the nation-state level.
Mind you its a bit unfair to compare nodejs with lua, a better example is luajit.
Dexterity assessment of hospital workers: prospective comparative study
Yes, global thermonuclear war in '62 would have certainly made concerns over boat anchors cutting fiber cables academic.
Just like their “Shuffle” feature. They have an incentive to play songs in your list that are financially beneficial to them.
I don't really understand where Zillow even factors into your assessment here, but maybe that is part of the problem. If people are looking for close knit communities on Zillow, that is a massive mistake.

Tight and close knit communities are not just going to let you join them. You have to basically commit to fostering those relationships for years and years, and generally speaking that kind of commitment is not getting more prevalent, but less.
This is how Adderall addiction looks, folks.
Age against the machine–susceptibility of LLMs to cognitive impairment
It's via Scout Enterprise which according to Fujitsu's link, has been ongoing since 2000 [1] additional at [2]

[1] https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/software/os/

[2] https://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/Publications/public/ds-Scout-... [pdf - 2018]
Avoid Cordova, it's deprecated and the ecosystem is dead. You could check out Capacitor, which is supposed to be a modern alternative.

That Cordova site really needs some kind of disclaimer.
For extra entredre points try and get it to run on this release [1].

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPotato
Expand this to any product. I should be able to use ANY product fully, without maintaining some kind of communication channel to and/or from the product's manufacturer. When I buy a hammer from Home Depot, I take it home and hammer with it. The manufacturer doesn't know I have it, doesn't know how many nails per month I hammer with it, how many swings it takes on average for me to drive in a nail, how often I use the claw side. They don't know if I use it for other purposes besides hammering nails. They don't know if I lend it to my neighbor. I can sell it to someone else without the manufacturer's permission.

Somehow hammer manufacturers can live with this. Why can't automakers, tech device manufacturers, and software developers live with this?
Russian isn’t a race.
does your forum have download or something in the name that could lead them/a scanning tool to think it's piracy download links? Not saying that would make the situation any more justified, I'm just kind of curious
Really interesting how microwaving food containers didn't do anything, in fact results usually were lower before microwaving than after.

(search "microwave)
Gimp 3.0 RC2 Released
I agree LLMs are good at text processing and I believe they will obsolete jobs that really should be obsoleted. Unless OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies come up with a breakthrough on reliability, I think it will be fair to say they will only be players and not leaders. If they can't figure something out, it will be Microsoft, Amazon and Google (distributors of diverse models) that will benefit the most.

I've personally found it is extremely unlikely for multiple good LLMs to fail at the same time, so if you want to process text and be confident in the results, I would just run the same task across 5 good models and if you have a super majority, you can be confident that it was done right.
If you used it as an example of why it always fails. And it failed because Sun was dysfunctional, then yeah, you could have a usable metaphor.
Interestingly, the quote you cite here seems to be specifically directed at G.K. Chesterton, who said exactly the opposite—that larger societies tend towards reducing the amount of variety that you experience, precisely because you can choose to associate primarily with people who you relate to [0]. In a small community, you could choose to be entirely isolated, but if you want company you'll need to associate with the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker—there's no way to keep company only with the particular class of intellectuals that you find stimulating.

Speaking as someone who's currently living in a small rural town, I concur with Chesterton here: if you really want to understand people in all their varieties, the city isn't the place to be. In most cities I've spent time in everyone walks or (worse) drive past thousands to reach the few who they already relate to. If you want variety, if you want to stretch your own perspectives, then you want to be in a small town where people actually stop and talk to each other because there's no one else to talk to.

[0] > It is not fashionable to say much nowadays of the advantages of the small community. We are told that we must go in for large empires and large ideas. There is one advantage, however, in the small state, the city, or the village, which only the wilfully blind can overlook. The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce varieties and uncompromising divergences of men. The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us. ... the men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul ... A big society exists in order to form cliques. A big society is a society for the promotion of narrowness. It is a machinery for the purpose of guarding the solitary and sensitive individual from all experience of the bitter and bracing human compromises.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/470/pg470-images.html
> I am convinced, though, that using FSD judiciously will save far more lives than removing it will.

This is a statement of faith.

IMO cars are dangerous, whether they have a level headed experienced driver or an all seeing all knowing AI, sometimes a car pulls out from a blind drive or a tire fails and swerves into oncoming traffic. It's not clear to me why people think having a computer drive 95% of the time so they don't have to will make them better able to avoid accidents in exceptional cases.

In the case of pilots, even tho a computer can handle all manner of weather, pilots are still required to put in manual flying time so they actually know how the craft handles under their control, so that they can be ready to take over in case of exceptional events. I think we will see the same regulation in cars eventually, requiring drivers to have minimum hours per year in order to continue piloting craft, even if AI is good enough to do it most of the time.
>But suppose you were interested in Rousseau

Ironically enough as a sidenote, Rousseau most definitely was not a proponent of urban living, and in fact detested the intellectual cosmopolitan more than just about anyone else, he went so far as to declare big cities the abyss of the human species. I don't personally agree but that is one tough philosopher for the aspiring urbanite
Hi Geo, Interesting.

Has he done anything more recently with regards to homemade batteries, or was it just a passing interest?

Since this article no longer has comment submissions on the page itself, is it possible to add a little something about the chemistry for bleach and safe handling?.

While the experiments are interesting, I can't help but notice significant deficits in safety that might cause anyone duplicating this (at different scale) to have regretful issues, proper chemical handling isn't really mentioned.

I'm no chemist, but I do have a working knowledge with some of these chemicals related to water chemistry (pools).

Bleach (NaClO) naturally corrodes (oxidizes) metal because of its strong electronegativity from Chlorine. Any metal vessel is going to rupture as a matter of time, potentially creating conditions where hazmat cleanup may be needed, where reactants need to be safely neutralized before byproduct cleanup can occur; this is not intuitive since dilution may not be sufficient; its highly dependent on the chemistry of the formed byproducts.

For example, Sodium by itself (metallic) reacts violently in air which is why its often stored in oil.

Many of the potential byproducts of the experiment are hazardous, or carcinogenic, and there is a possibility that some may recombine at the electrodes. No mention of needed PPE is made.

The voltage differential across two electrodes unless externally driven (electrochemistry) is almost always driven by redox reactions (reduction / oxidation).

The solution may recombine into chlorine gas on the reduction side. There are other reactions that may also occur.

While I don't see too many unaddress-able issues at the small scale, if someone scaled this up as-is to get an appropriate level of voltage/current, I'd be worried for their safety.
Technically he withdrew and was not forced out.
Sorry, which conversion? If you mean OpenAI, it's not clear that what they are currently planning is illegal. If they do it correctly, the non-profit is fully compensated for their stake in the for-profit.
I guess you can use something like https://wise.com to make the IBAN transfer locally, and pay them using a more convenient payment method for you, like ACH, PayPal, Credit Card, etc
Intelligence Is $20 a Month
Sorry, mis-click threading issue on mobile. I meant the reply to this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42480099

Do any of the mobile-friendly alternative HN front-ends support commenting without giving up your creds?
> Yes but investing in new, long-term friendships is a bit of an oxymoron. In order to do that, you have to pick one set of friends and then stick with them (cuz opportunity cost — the day is only so long). And once you've done so, you then have to stop investing in new friends and stick with those old ones.

I think this is a bit of a false dichotomy that assumes you get a static group of people dumped in your lap—in either case—that you get to choose or be alone because everyone else is guaranteed to choose not you for some reason, and also that long-term friends always require the same amount of investment. Likewise, you seem to be leaning heavily into not having to make a persuasive case for yourself, as if there's never a situation in which you'd be compelling.

Although scarcity might favor ease of intimacy, I think it's more true that luck, opportunity, and chemistry, give any pair of people something to work with regardless of shared interest. You can't assume every person you meet is friend material, but if you and them are open to it, you can both explore further. If 1/5 people seem fun to have coffee or go to the gym with, including in a rural area that may not even have a gym, it'll take a while to build that up, but you'll want a breadth of possible situations to meet people in. Hometowns don't necessitate that, you get it for free in school or church or wherever, but starting anew you gotta get out there.

You're not wrong though, I just think it takes longer. When I moved to where I did, a good half of the people I met were always looking for a plan B, flaking on trivial plans, not interested in one-on-one stuff without an activity going on. That was 8 years ago, and they're long gone. In their place are multiple groups of friends I've met in wildly different contexts, that don't flake enough for me to notice, and I consider pretty solid and close. I let the others go, and likewise with everyone in my hometown that I still talk to, I either can feel great about making a deliberate effort to spend unconstrained time with, or they're not in the picture, and maybe only 4 are left because everyone else is either a shallow acquaintance or were just there out of convenience in the first place.

As you grow older, there is certainly an economy of time you need to manage, but as you grow closer, you get grandfathered into not coming to that one thing or whatever every single time. My friend group consequently grows slower than ever, but is bigger than ever, and I make a point of being the friend I'd like to have—as cheesy as it is; I expect the same of them, and if they can do that then there's something to work with.
France still does it with their e-gates for non EU citizens. Of course you could give them any passport to stamp and I think they would.

Can’t tell if the stamper has a plum job or if it’s a punishment.
I was 6-teens in hampton /vabeach (84), i didn't have friends IRL doing anything with computers ever as a kid. Computer stuff was considered super nerdy. Dad was army so he'd be gone for 2-4 years at a time and all I had to do was hockey and computer stuff (linux/games). IO had tons of car friends because of the bases.

They might have a family PC in the living room for research and papers but everyone used consoles.

In 2024 some of my genz friends have grown up doing their research/papers on their iphones. I could never. I get mad typing on mine, I need a keyboard and an ultrawide.
I think he meant that as a rhetorical question. It's commentary because he thinks it's Onion-worthy.
They're not. Is your search engine broken?
Wish I could, but the high cost of living in my home town of Santa Cruz drove me and all my friends away. Then when I went back, home was no longer home.
Swap the domain of the URL with nitter.poast.org

https://nitter.poast.org/ianwcrosby/status/18727242319993817...

More about nitter: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Philosophically the point still stands. If you delegate your management decisions to a computer and someone dies you can't put the computer in jail for murder. Ultimately a person must be responsible and that means you can't fully automate it unless you have perfect trust in the machine.

It is only irrelevant in the degree to which companies have been able to skirt laws and literally get away with murder.
Chinese AI company: Breakthroughs enabled creating model with 11X less compute
How are musicians are going to perform live before large audiences?
That's just tweaking the constants on the compression algorithm.
Some of it’s pretty good. even a year ago the biggie cover of New York State of mind came out and I was quite impressed
I suppose how you feel about it is irrelevant, time marches forward
In a lot of cars you can pull the fuse that powers the cellular modem without any side effects
This makes a ton of sense! We've faced the same exact problem because whenever we need to add a new materialized table or column, we need to backfill data into it.

For materialized columns, it's a "easy" (not really because you still need to monitor the backfill) because we can run something like `ALTER TABLE events UPDATE materialized_column = materialized_column WHERE 1`. Depending on the materialization that can bring the load up on clickhouse because it still creates a lot of background mutations that we need to monitor, because they can fail due to all sorts of reasons (memory limit or disk space errors), in which case we need to jump in and fix things by hand.

For materialized tables, it's a bit harder because we need to write custom scripts to load data in day-wise (or month, depending on the data size) chunks like you mentioned, because an `INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM another_table` will for sure run into memory limit errors depending on the data size.

I would love to think more about this to see if it's something that would make sense to handle within Houseplant.
The dress code is pretty outdated and doesn’t add anything of substance. Let the players be comfortable, we just want to see good chess!
Only a tiny group of people with Alzheimer show symptoms at their 30s, while practically nobody at their 20s (early Alzheimer)
Showed up later.
I've opened an issue to track this https://github.com/juneHQ/houseplant/issues/30

Would love to chat more here or there if you're keen!
I’m confused the user experience of 180VR.
I asked ChatGPT to replace "current AI" and synonyms with "HUMANS" and I'm satisfied. My favorite revised sentences:

"Does HUMANS represent a dead end?"

"HUMANS should not be used for serious applications."

"HUMANS are unmanageable, and as a consequence their use in serious contexts is irresponsible."

"HUMANS have no internal structure that relates meaningfully to their functionality."

"HUMANS have input and state spaces too large for exhaustive testing."

"HUMANS do not allow verification by parts (unit testing, integration testing, etc)."

"HUMANS have faults, but even their error behaviour is likely emergent, and certainly hard to predict or eradicate."

"HUMANS have no model of knowledge and no representation of any ‘reasoning.’"

"HUMANS represent a dead end, where exponential increases of training data and effort will give us modest increases in impressive plausibility but no foundational increase in reliability."

"HUMANS cannot be developed, or reused, as components."

"There is no possibility for stepwise development — using either informal or formal methods — for HUMANS."

and my favorite:

"In my mind, all this puts even state-of-the-art HUMANS in a position where professional responsibility dictates the avoidance of them in any serious application."
I like watching chess videos of this guy doing online chess. I appreciate his being extremely down to earth and not arrogant by any means. Great vibes
That’s the big question I had with this: is it the actual production of fossil fuels that is producing that much GHG? Or is it other industries using the produced fuel that is liberating the GHGs from the fuels?

Edit: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/743af33c-b2f5-4a93-... suggests that production, transportation, and processing of O&G is only about 15% of energy-related GHG emissions and that actually using those produced fuels is around 40%. So… TFA seems to be potentially quite misleading.
And the sheer amount of people. It is very fun to have so many people who are at least semi-proud of the city they live in. Embracing both the chaos and the calmness of 6am on weekeneds.
Sadly, I suspect discoveries like this will only cause other companies to learn from it --- by making it even more difficult to discover their "plausible-deniability" tricks, and hiding them under the guise of "security". Big Tech has been playing that game for a while:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36926276

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24955071
There are significant downsides to the digitalization of travel documents. The biggest one I can think of is ownership - the UK is moving to an entirely digital visa system and bringing in an ESTA style system called ETA for visa free countries. Unfortunately this means that residency cards for noncitizens are being phased out. This means that when the Home Office messes up and accidentally deletes your immigration status, or you are at an airport with no internet access, you have no evidence whatsoever of what status you hold. It also means you will no longer be in possession of any records that might be useful years in the future when the current database containing immigration records will likely have been replaced. It’s much easier to keep a piece of paper around for 30+ years than it is to make sure a digital record doesn’t rot in that time.

I feel strongly that any future digital travel credentials that are offered by governments should be able to operate entirely offline, and provide records that can be retained by the data subject. That means that revocation is harder, but IMO that’s a tradeoff that is worth making to avoid another Windrush scandal.

This has already become a pain when dealing with countries that don’t stamp passports, because when you need to apply for something that asks for your travel history over the past 10 years, you might not have any records anymore.
It's how virtually all automation works. You figure out how to make a computer do 80% of the problem domain and give humans tools to intervene effectively when you're outside that subset.

Many of the most reliable systems you can think of work this way, from the mail, to taxes, to factories, to autopilot systems. The key to building them is to be intentional about what you're doing and especially avoid blaming the humans for the system's failures.
What does better connections in this context mean? To begin ranking the quality of connections, or "betterness", don't you need something approximating knowledge?
https://archive.is/4hczD
Agreed. This could be a very intelligent implementation, or it could be an over-engineered mess. It certainly seems like overkill for my experiences with agents, but problem applications can vary wildly. It is impossible to tell how to evaluate these design choices without more concrete details.
It may still be true. Handling plastic over time (e.g. lots of squeezing and dropping) could plausibly cause an increase of plastic leakage over time.
If the government is going to mandate that you carry a phone in order to travel, they should provide the phone with the passport. I don't know how any of these "smartphone only" official document schemes are expected to work for people who don't carry smartphones.
okay. that might be a medical industry distinction for early Alzheimer’s, I am referring to a colloquial definition of “passengers noticed it and reported the driver and their their license got revoked so they arent a taxi driver anymore”